Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Kelly Smith

Consumers will be able to request information on all ethnic restaurants within, say, a one-mile radius or eight-mile radius of where they're going to be. They could ask what nearby restaurants are open at certain hours that accept MasterCard. One could imagine being able to identify a child-friendly, moderately priced restaurant within five blocks, open now when you have a car full of hungry kids.

Bryant Kitty

We just want to be consistent. We can accept a loss if we get beaten by a better team, but we've been giving away too many games, especially in the region.

John Hurt

What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem. It's governments and politics that make wars and do stupid things, and they should be attended to. There's no security in this life.

Rachel Nichols

My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

Ken Keyes

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Khaled Meshaal

We want the world to accept the results of the Palestinian legislative elections, respect the will of the Palestinian people and support them materially, morally and politically and political support.

Jeff Klein

We need to accept people where they are, not where we want them to be. We need to reach out to the unaffiliated, the inter-married and the assimilated.

Tom Daschle

The president and his advisers must accept that continued legal jousting serves no constructive purpose,

Steve Jones

You can see it won't be very long at all before they're turning a house into a home.

Christine Peters

This is our house now. And we're moving past it.

Frank Brown

This is a house that could have been demolished. We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

Frank Brown

This is a house that could have been demolished, ... We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

Gao Zhisheng

They were worried that I was going to try to go to Zhao's house to pay my respects and they increased security outside my house from 20 to 40 agents.

Jerry Putnam

They let people sign up. We've yet to see an offer of a house or trailer. As I understand it, they don't have any space.

Johnny Jessop

They won't let you come in the house because you'll desecrate it. They'd have to rededicate the house.

Arlen Specter

It simply wasn't possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted.

Martha Babson

I've known my house was under the threat of being taken. I'm not selling because I want to. I'm selling because I have to.

Stana Katic

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

Stanley Milgram

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

Tamora Pierce

Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

Tacitus

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Tacitus

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Sylvia Plath

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

Sylvia Plath

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Swami Vivekananda

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.